Item Detail
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English
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Unpacking White-Heritage Mormon Privilege : A Latter-day Saint Pursuit of Critical Consciousness
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Decolonizing Mormonism : Approaching a Postcolonial Zion
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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114-130
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Rolf Straubhaar's personal and analytical essay raises powerful questions around his privilege as a white "heritage" Mormon. Using the critical pedagogy framework proposed by Paulo Freire, Straubhaar poignantly argues that being "born in the covenant" is too often understood as being born into competency by heritage Mormons who live or serve among the most economically disadvantaged Mormons around the globe.